Comic Fonts again...

John Pfersich jp1660 at att.net
Thu Apr 15 03:34:21 UTC 2004


Ned said:
>
>Not necessarily.
>
>* The 'Comic' name is probably trademarked (though bitmap fonts themselves
>aren't copyrightable in the US, their names are usually trademarked).
>* The StrikeFonts are in MacRoman encoding; this doesn't work well for the
>m17n work (where Latin-1 is preferred).
>* The StrikeFonts do not have international glyphs (especially Japanese).
>
>I think we should remove ComicSansMS (see below) and find (or construct) a
>replacement, licensed or freely distributable, TrueType font that is suitable
>for Etoys and that includes a wider set of glyphs.
>
I noticed on the bancomicsans.com site one page that has a number of 
free comic sans replacement fonts, maybe one or more of those would 
do...
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